NEW figures show this year the percentage of pupils in England admitted to their first-choice secondary school has fallen for the first time in five years.

Simultaneously, the number of applications for secondary school rose for the first time since 2008.

This is one of the many problems exacerbated by uncontrolled immigration.

It is all very well for the leftie teachers’ unions to be up-in-arms about the problem of school places but it was those very same Labour-supporting unions that called UKIP racist for highlighting the problems caused by mass immigration.

Dr Mary Bousted of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has accused education secretary Michael Gove of failing to deliver his main responsibility of “providing school places for the nation’s children”.

The Local Government Association has warned rising demand for primary school places could soon see two pupils fighting for every place in some areas of the country.

Labour and the unions want to have mass immigration and small class sizes, and a place for every child at the school of their choice.

That simply can’t be done, we said it couldn’t be done, and today we have been proven right all along.

While we are a member of the EU, the Tories know they can do nothing to solve the problem of uncontrolled immigration either, so I’m afraid many parents hoping to get their child into the best school in their area next year will be sadly disappointed.

Northwest MEP Paul Nuttall, Ukip deputy leader